To pee or not to Pee (Page 4)

Seriously?????
Please tell me you are kidding??

Immodium (loperamide) can be the runner's friend.


Edited by Oldteen 2010-04-02 10:34 AM

I say it's your body, you're by yourself, pee if you want.  Who cares?  I can't do it because I could not relax enough...but think it's awesome you can...

In ancient Roman times, they used urine to wash clothes.  It's just pee....but I love how worked up people got about it. :P

I did...during a cross country skiing race.......in january..........It was not the right decission.

I'm potty training my toddler right now. How would I explain to him that its OK for daddy to soil himself while training but he needs to use the "potty"?

Id def do it. No real reason for me not to. I find it rather difficult to get back up to pace once i stop for 2 min to pee...tie a shoe...or anything like that. AT mile 69 of my HIM there aint no way im stopping to pee...Id pee and keep on going. I think for me its more of a true distaste for stoping than it is for saving time

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I honestly don't get why people have such an issue with peeing while racing.  I have no problem if I can get it out.  I have pee in my wetsuit and on the bike.  I have not done it while running more because I am just not capable of doing it.   

If I stopped I don't think I could pee so it would be a waste of time.  Only to start again, need to pee, and not able to.

 

Oh, hell no.

And look at the 2000 views!  Thats crazy.  Someone asks for help with the fit of a wetsuit...5 views.
Someone pees while running 2100 views. 

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Edited by Patti678 2010-04-02 6:54 PM

Although I had never needed to pee on the run, it wouldn't bother me. The only thing I would make sure is to give my shoes a good washing after!

I have run many times in Boca (up and down A1A) and if one had to go suddenly, I know there is no place to hid.

On the issue of 'Code Brown', many years ago when training solely for the marathon, I hit a patch of overtraining, and one of the effects was the sudden need for taking a dump in the middle of my run. No matter what I did before hand, there was a 2 week period where, sometime in the middle of my run, I had an immediate need to lay a few bricks. I usually had no more than a 60 second warning. Thankfully most of my running was done on a relatively secuded trail that was able to accomdate my plumbing issue.

Thankfully as I lowered my mileage and took a few days off for NYCM, my systems came back under control.

Thanks for letting me share.

No problems here. I'm a sick individual though... or so I'm told.

haha, no, you are just marinating in everyone's urine while swimming.

It takes a long time to get that odor out of the sneakers...or so I've heard...

And look at the 2000 views!  Thats crazy.  Someone asks for help with the fit of a wetsuit...5 views.
Someone pees while running 2100 views. 




Not to mention all those dup posts!!!

Been running for 35 years and never have peed myself.  Now in a wetsuit - that is a different story...

it blows my mind to think that people think urinating is "gross".

It is actually a sterile liquid. It contains no pathogens or anything like that. The only thing it really contains that is gross-ish is amonia and some other chemical compunds and a strong aroma IF you are dehydrated. If you are properly hydrated ( this is a topic elsewhere I am sure) then you should have vertually no odour and definitly no colour to the wee.

I personally would have no issue  with peeing in a race or even a specific TT coaching session BUT as bear and many others have said my internal plumbing and external hose just will not allow me to do so whilst excersizing in anyform. 

I was in an open water swim where I had to stop, tread water VERY slowly and RELAX to wee. I can NOT wee and excersise at all fro some reason.

As far as code brown goes -----  well unless I was in the last KM in a race coming in for a place getters position ( never going to happen by the way) then I would possibly think about it if I really really REALLY had to go but other than NEVER NEVER NEVER poo in my pants . Although as a young teenager I did tdo a poo in some open water and was scared by the fact that the poo floated and followed me..... it was like the bloody thing wanted to come home with me. ARGHHHH.

So in conclusion ...

pee ... no real issue
poo ... not in a month of brown sundays!

While I can see throwing my running shoes in the washer, I wouldn't want to pee on the bike, getting out of the cycling shoes must be much tougher.

agree...   

I don't think it's that big of a deal to pee on the bike while racing... a good squirt from a water bottle and your good. 

Pee while running... even if I wanted to, couldn't. (but the chick-a-dees ~ if you had to and it worked, then Pee On!) 

Next time you're down in the water at swim start, take a second to think about what everyone does that used a port o potty that had no toilted paper and where did they go to clean themselves..hmmmm

I think it's extra gross to have pee running down your leg and soaking your shoe whether training or racing...honestly I'm not sure how you even do that while running, pretty sure I couldn't. in the case of doing it while racing you could be affecting people around you who would prefer not to swim in your pee, ride behind you while you are peeing or splash in a puddle of pee while running. be considerate and use the proper facilities....pee pee pants :-P

Sorry .....  but when I get to go to my first swim start at my first ever Tri and I am busting due to nerves or what ever ..... I will be peeing to my hearts content .... know why???  because I can and no one knows and ..... Because fish do it in the water and so to all sorts of other animals and it is STERILE! There are no greebies in healthy urine. Get over the idea that urnine ikky. It is a liquid and it is made inside your body and is sterile.

Not sure how many times I need to actually say this but it is  .... umm  .... sterile. Of course wash your self for basic hygiene issues but in a race or a really important time trial for training and you have the ABILITY then GGOOOOOOO FFFFOOOORRRRRR IIIIITTTTTTTT!

Keep the poo hidden!